Really Off-Topic

[moon_custafer]

Don’t know why, but it’s occurred to me just now that there is an opposite trope to the sexy fadeout, which is the eye-contact-that-leads-directly-to-sex – two characters catch each other’s eye in a public place, or have a short conversation on some mundane topic – then in the next shot they’re in bed together, with no intervening steps shown. Kind of frustrating to those audience members (i.e. me) who’d like to know just *what* was said to get things moving so fast…

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[crankydon.blogspot.com (from livejournal.com)]

I know. I, for example, was cruelly disappointed to discover that the whole process in real life seems to take much longer than it does for a bit of eye-contact and to say something like "Bond; James Bond."

[moon-custafer.livejournal.com]

It's possible the screenwriters don't know either, so they're just skimming ahead.

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Step #2: ...
Step #3: Profit!

[crankydon.blogspot.com (from livejournal.com)]

Quite possibly true. I remember hearing how the author of the "Lensman" series freely admitted that he knew nothing of romance and would call his wife in for a bit of ghost writing when it came to the female side of any romantic scene.

[moon-custafer.livejournal.com]

Well he must’ve known something, or he wouldn’t have had a wife to help write the romance scenes .. : )

Wasn’t the female lead in the Lensman supposed to look suspiciously like Smith’s wife anyway?